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I agree that payloads are an interesting idea; but would be a security nightmare. As soon as you load a URL based on an email, you are leaking information to t

by 7952 15y ago

I agree that payloads are an interesting idea; but would be a security nightmare. As soon as you load a URL based on an email, you are leaking information to the sender. You could restrict the types of content, but all you end up with is RSS.

evaneykelen 15y ago
It could be implemented in a secure way, without using a URL as you mentioned. The email client could support plug-ins (Thunderbird does I believe), the user would authorize the plug-in to connect with his Pivotal account and the data inside the JSON payload would be used to render a Pivotal story. With other words: an augmented email client could do things with payloads inside emails that are far beyond what email clients do nowadays and I believe it can be done in a secure manner.